Ken Burns

Movie fans trekking to Telluride, Colo., for the resort town’s annual film festival this weekend are set to see some of the fall’s most anticipated performances, including Bill Murray as FDR in “Hyde Park on Hudson,” Michael Shannon as family man and freelance assassin in “The Iceman,” and Ben Affleck as a CIA agent in “Argo.” Other high-profile titles screening at the festival, which opens Friday, include “Ginger and Rosa,” filmmaker Sally Potter’s coming-of-age drama with Elle Fanning; “Midnight’s Children,” director Deepa Mehta’s adaptation of the novel by Salman Rushdie, who wrote the screenplay;...

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The highways and byways of American music will be explored in the months ahead at the Newport News Public Library. A set of local performers including jazz man Jae Sinnett and a local Baptist church choir will add to the fun.
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Leaping ahead to 2013, we see that the Newport News Main Street Library will present a six-week movie series focusing on American music.“America’s Music: A Film History of Our Popular Music from Blues to Bluegrass to Broadway” is the name of the free...

Movie fans trekking to Telluride, Colo., for the resort town’s annual film festival this weekend are set to see some of the fall’s most anticipated performances, including Bill Murray as FDR in “Hyde Park on Hudson,” Michael Shannon as family man and...

SHILOH NATIONAL MILITARY PARK, Tenn. — "The battle of Shiloh, or Pittsburg Landing, fought on Sunday and Monday, the 6th and 7th of April, 1862," wrote Union Major Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, "has been perhaps less understood, or, to state the...

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Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns isn't one to easily lend his name to colognes, designer jeans, spaghetti sauce or any of the other entrapments that sometimes come with fame.
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